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<blockquote data-quote="Tamlyn" data-source="post: 5445086" data-attributes="member: 22563">As has been mentioned before, the market is pretty saturated. So without resuscitating demand somehow (ie renwed support for the skirmish game) I'm not convinced that a tweaked business model will create enough additional sales for WOTC to consider it worthwhile. And by tweaked business model I mean prepainted vs nonpainted or random vs nonrandom.&nbsp;I think that by releasing a few, select minis like they're currently planning isn't that bad of an idea. The demand will be high due to the scarcity of the product. Look at the examples of Orcus and the two dragons above. The price is higher than a MacFarlane's dragon because they are iconic. They're not just any dragons, they are official Dungeons &amp; Dragons Red Dragon/Black Dragon/Orcus/Whatever. And no, we can't ask WOTC to produce more because the prices are high on the secondary market. They were limited in production when they first came out and we all knew it.&nbsp;The only tweak I would like to see in their current plan would be to follow the example set by <a href="http://www.threadless.com/" target="_blank">Threadless</a>. I would love to see them propose possible sculpts and have their rabid fanbase vote on the ones that would be released. Sure, there'd be a lot of dragons, demons, beholders and probably iconics like Drizzt, Elminster, Meepo(?), Strahd, Grazzt, etc. They would of necessity be limited editions. Produce them for a while then move on to other votes. Granted, I know nothing about producing pre-painted plastic minis. I'm not sure the differences in producing PPM's versus screen printed T-shirts could make this feasible.&nbsp;And the DM in me would love to see perpetually available orc, kobold, zombie, skele, goblin army packs available.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tamlyn, post: 5445086, member: 22563"] As has been mentioned before, the market is pretty saturated. So without resuscitating demand somehow (ie renwed support for the skirmish game) I'm not convinced that a tweaked business model will create enough additional sales for WOTC to consider it worthwhile. And by tweaked business model I mean prepainted vs nonpainted or random vs nonrandom. I think that by releasing a few, select minis like they're currently planning isn't that bad of an idea. The demand will be high due to the scarcity of the product. Look at the examples of Orcus and the two dragons above. The price is higher than a MacFarlane's dragon because they are iconic. They're not just any dragons, they are official [B]Dungeons & Dragons Red Dragon/Black Dragon/Orcus/Whatever.[/B] And no, we can't ask WOTC to produce more because the prices are high on the secondary market. They were limited in production when they first came out and we all knew it. The only tweak I would like to see in their current plan would be to follow the example set by [URL="http://www.threadless.com/"]Threadless[/URL]. I would love to see them propose possible sculpts and have their rabid fanbase vote on the ones that would be released. Sure, there'd be a lot of dragons, demons, beholders and probably iconics like Drizzt, Elminster, Meepo(?), Strahd, Grazzt, etc. They would of necessity be limited editions. Produce them for a while then move on to other votes. Granted, I know nothing about producing pre-painted plastic minis. I'm not sure the differences in producing PPM's versus screen printed T-shirts could make this feasible. And the DM in me would love to see perpetually available orc, kobold, zombie, skele, goblin army packs available. [/QUOTE]

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